Comment Thanks (Score 1) 2
Amazing. Thank you for posting this.
Record Labels Struggle With the Album's Demise 375
Supplying yet more evidence, if more were needed, of the dire straits the music business increasingly finds itself in — reader cphilo sends us a NYTimes article about the death of the album as the mainstay of profit, and the record labels' struggle to adopt to the new realities. The article notes the trend of the labels signing artists for a single song, maybe two, and a ring tone.
Intel's "Terascale" Vision 220
Vigile writes, "Intel is pushing the envelope with its latest vision — 80 cores on a single processor. Dubbed 'Terascale' computing, Intel aims to bring low-powered, massively interconnected cores and unleash a new era in data-mining, media creation, and entertainment." For balance, read Tom Yager over at InfoWorld imploring AMD to stop at 8 cores while everybody gets the architecture right.
Software Turns Google into a Virus Scanner 72
Kfleming writes "Websense, a security vendor, has developed software that uses a binary search feature built into Google to hunt down malware. Using this technique researchers at Websense have uncovered over 2,000 websites hosting malware, and are also able to detect legitimate sites that have been hacked. Could this binary search feature also be used to exploit Google and trick users into downloading malware?"
The Art of SQL 225
Graeme Williams writes "One difference between SQL and a conventional procedural programming language is that for SQL there's a bigger gap between what the code says and what the code does. The Art of SQL is the opposite of a cookbook – or rather it's about cooking rather than recipes. It's not a reference manual, although there's plenty to refer back to. It's an intermediate level book which assumes you know how to read and write SQL, and analyzes what SQL does and how it does it." Read on for Graeme's review.
Captain Copyright Targets Kids 430
frank249 writes "The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency has set up a copyright education website called Captain Copyright. There is a section for kids with comic books and a section for teachers for grades 1-3, 3-6 and 6-8. An example of a grade 1 class activity: 'Present the following situation to students: Your friend is downloading a song off the Internet. In comes Captain Copyright. Ask: What do you think Captain Copyright will say?
Encourage students to brainstorm. Then hand out (or read) Line Master: Some Copyright Laws.' In Canadian law it is incorrect to download a song unless you pay for it. They also neglect to mention that Canadians pay a tax on blank media that is meant to compensate artists for downloads."
Comment Re:The Road Ahead,,,, (Score 1, Informative) 690
He was claiming that the "The Road Ahead", Bill Gates' first book of the "visionary" type, did not have any vision for Internet in it, thus implying that Gates should not be treated as visionary whose predictions are always 100% correct.
Journal Journal: Florida
Jeb is just as stupid as his brother. In the press conference about the most recent hurricane he was asked about how the money would be funneled to Florida. Well first of all the guy that controls the money for stuff like this just happens to be from Florida and of course there's his idiot brother. Reminds me of Fahrenheit 911's scene showing how everyone involved in Florida's election distortion had relations to bush.
Journal Journal: Everything you ever wanted to know about Sir Haxa1ot
I get a lot of fan mail. People want to meet me in person, install alternative OS on my hard drives, sleep with me, etc. To answer all the questions here's the Complete Guide to Sir Haxa1ot.
Journal Journal: The reason behind MSFT stock slip by 10% last Friday 1
Got to Las Vegas a couple hours ago, I wanted to get here earlier, but the flight was delayed, and JC was trying everthing in his power to get me to take a bus or something, so finallyI had to tell him that I put my muddy shoes on the bed, and when he went upstairs to check, I grabbed my bags, hopped in the car and left. >.> He's gonna be pissed when he gets here, but..I had to do what I had to do.
Journal Journal: An open letter to Scott McNealy, SUNW 1
I slept better last night than I have in a really long time.
Also, Andie never came home from her study session.
Coincedence? I think not. Rather, I think it's because for the first time since moving in this apartment, I've been able to breathe fresh air at night. Ooooh nooo the window is open we're all going to diiiiiiiiiiiiiieeee!
Journal Journal: GNU/Linux interaction
there are about 10 volunteers at PHA today, and hardly and patients. one of the other volunteers has brought in some photographs. i'm in a lot of them. i don't remember posing for any of these, but they are really beautiful. in one, i sit on a chair in a green field, leaning back. i'm wearing a plaid skirt and black lipstick. my hair is bright and my eyelashes are long. there is a whole series of pictures of me standing in a bathtub. i think i took them myself. there is a full-length mirror p
Journal Journal: Well...
I've never been close with my parents. My mom is always pinpointing something she doesn't like about my 20-year-old sister and I. Maybe this is why we both have really low self-esteem. My dad was the jokester in the family; he was the one who usually kept things going for us.
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